On Nov 17, 2014, at 10:55 AM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's unfortunately AIX continues to use stabs rather than an embedded dwarf >> format. Sigh.
> The other complexity is IBM backported the feature to earlier versions > of AIX, but there is no major or minor AIX version number that > definitely has the support. It's in service packs. At Apple, we faced interesting problems that were similar, and we punted for expediency and insisted that people used the higher minor number (which did have a feature or bug fix). The idea was that we could, if things went wrong, do a point release with just a critical fix or two, and pretend like the original feature was always present or that a bug was never present. Not ideal, but capable of solving most hard problems.
